impalpable

The word “impalpable” has 4 syllables: im-pal-pa-ble

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈpæl.pə.bəl/


What is synonym and antonym for impalpable?

In the thesaurus, “impalpable” has 49 synonyms and 37 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for impalpable along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for impalpable

  • airy
  • bodiless
  • buried
  • concealed
  • covert
  • delicate
  • disembodied
  • disguised
  • ethereal
  • faint
  • fine
  • hidden
  • immaterial
  • imperceptible
  • imponderable
  • imprecise
  • inappreciable
  • inaudible
  • inconspicuous
  • incorporeal
  • indiscernible
  • indistinct
  • indistinguishable
  • insensible
  • insignificant
  • insubstantial
  • intangible
  • invisible
  • liminal
  • nebulous
  • obscure
  • shadowy
  • shrouded
  • slender
  • slight
  • spiritual
  • subtle
  • tenuous
  • thin
  • trivial
  • unapparent
  • unnoticeable
  • unobservable
  • unperceivable
  • unreal
  • unseeable
  • unseen
  • unsubstantial
  • vague

Antonyms for impalpable

  • apparent
  • appreciable
  • audible
  • believeable
  • clear
  • conspicuous
  • corporeal
  • discernable
  • discernible
  • distinct
  • embodied
  • evident
  • eye-catching
  • manifest
  • material
  • noticeable
  • observable
  • obvious
  • palpable
  • perceptible
  • physical
  • plain
  • ponderable
  • prominent
  • real
  • recognizable
  • sensible
  • significant
  • solid
  • straightforward
  • striking
  • substantial
  • tactile
  • tangible
  • touchable
  • understandable
  • visible

Meanings of impalpable

  • adjective
    1. Not able to be perceived by the senses (especially by touch); intangible or insubstantial.
    2. Not easily grasped or understood.

Example Sentences

  • The artist's work captured an impalpable sense of melancholy that lingered in the viewer's mind.
  • He tried to explain the impalpable connection he felt to the ancient ruins, but words failed him.
  • The perfume had an impalpable quality, making it both alluring and mysterious.
  • As the fog rolled in, an impalpable stillness settled over the forest.
  • Her intuition was guided by an impalpable feeling that something was amiss.

On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to impalpable, such as: airy, apparent, appreciable, audible, believeable, bodiless, buried.

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Related Words

abstract

  • abbreviate
  • abbreviation
  • abridge
  • abridgement
  • abridgment
  • abstruse
  • actualization
  • amuse
  • archetype
  • avatar
  • beguile
  • boil down
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  • brief
  • call off
  • capsule
  • compend
  • compendium
  • complex
  • concentrate
  • conceptual
  • conclusion
  • concretization
  • condensation
  • condense
  • conjectural
  • consolidate
  • conspectus
  • cosmic
  • cosmical
  • curtail
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  • cut back
  • decoct
  • deep
  • detach
  • detract
  • digest
  • disconnect
  • disengage
  • dissociate
  • distract
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  • downsize
  • embodier
  • embodiment
  • encapsulate
  • encapsulation
  • entertain
  • epilog
  • epilogue
  • epitome
  • epitomize
  • essence
  • essentialize
  • ethereal
  • exemplar
  • exemplification
  • expressionist
  • expressionistic
  • externalization
  • extract
  • genius
  • hypothetical
  • icon
  • ideal
  • ideational
  • ikon
  • image
  • immaterial
  • impalpable
  • imperceptible
  • impractical
  • impressionist
  • impressionistic
  • incarnation
  • incorporation
  • incorporeal
  • indefinite
  • insensible
  • instantiation
  • insubstantial
  • intangible
  • intellectual
  • inventory
  • invisible
  • isolate
  • manifestation
  • mental
  • metaphysical
  • model
  • nonconcrete
  • nonfigurative
  • nonmaterial
  • nonobjective
  • nonphysical
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  • notional
  • objectification
  • outline
  • paradigm
  • part
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  • personalization
  • personification
  • personifier
  • philosophical
  • quintessence
  • realization
  • recap
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  • recondite
  • rehash
  • reincarnation
  • remove
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  • resume
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  • romantic
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  • simplification
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  • soul
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  • steal
  • stray
  • streamline
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  • substantiation
  • sum
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  • summa
  • summarization
  • summarize
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  • symbolist
  • symbolistic
  • synopsis
  • synopsize
  • take out
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • throw off
  • transcendent
  • transcendental
  • uncouple
  • unreal
  • unsubstantial
  • utopian
  • visionary
  • wander
  • withdraw
  • wrap up
  • wrap-up

dark

  • Cimmerian
  • Delphian
  • Delphic
  • abstruse
  • ambiguous
  • anagogic
  • analphabetic
  • aphotic
  • arcane
  • artless
  • atramentous
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • baffling
  • banned
  • barred
  • base
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • benighted
  • bewildering
  • black
  • blackish
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blue
  • brainless
  • brownout
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • cabalistic
  • caliginous
  • callow
  • candlelight
  • censurable
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • cimmerian
  • circuitous
  • clandestine
  • cloaked
  • close
  • closemouthed
  • clouded
  • cloudiness
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • colorless
  • comfortless
  • complex
  • complicated
  • concealed
  • concealment
  • condemned
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • covert
  • crepuscular
  • cruel
  • cryptic
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • damnable
  • darkened
  • darkening
  • darkish
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  • dead of night
  • debased
  • debauched
  • deep
  • defiling
  • degenerate
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  • denseness
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  • depressed
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  • depressive
  • desolate
  • desperate
  • despicable
  • despondent
  • difficult
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dimness
  • dimout
  • dingy
  • dire
  • dirty
  • disallowed
  • discomfiting
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
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  • discreet
  • disguised
  • disheartening
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • distressful
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  • doleful
  • double-edged
  • dour
  • down
  • drab
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dumb
  • dun
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • eerie
  • eery
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elliptic
  • elliptical
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • equivocal
  • errant
  • erring
  • esoteric
  • evening
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • execrable
  • faint
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  • fallen
  • fogginess
  • foggy
  • foolish
  • forbidden
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  • forlorn
  • foul
  • frowning
  • fuliginous
  • functionally illiterate
  • funereal
  • furtive
  • fuzzy
  • gloaming
  • gloom
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  • glowering
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • gray
  • grayness
  • green
  • grey
  • grim
  • half-light
  • hangdog
  • haziness
  • hazy
  • hellish
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hugger-mugger
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignoble
  • ignorant
  • ill
  • ill-lighted
  • illegal
  • illiterate
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoral
  • impalpable
  • impenetrable
  • improper
  • inappreciable
  • incomprehensible
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • indecent
  • indecipherable
  • indecorous
  • indefinite
  • indirect
  • indistinct
  • indistinguishable
  • inexact
  • inexperienced
  • inexplicable
  • inexplicit
  • infamous
  • infernal
  • iniquitous
  • inky
  • innocent
  • innumerate
  • inscrutability
  • inscrutable
  • intangible
  • interdicted
  • intricate
  • invisible
  • joyless
  • knotty
  • lackluster
  • lamentable
  • leaden
  • libertine
  • lightless
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • loose
  • louring
  • loury
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-minded
  • lowbrow
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • lugubrious
  • lurid
  • masked
  • mean
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • midnight
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • mistiness
  • misty
  • moonless
  • morbid
  • moronic
  • morose
  • mournful
  • muddy
  • murk
  • murkiness
  • murky
  • mysterious
  • mystic
  • mystical
  • mystifying
  • naive
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nebulous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • night
  • nightfall
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  • noncommittal
  • nonliterate
  • not known
  • noxious
  • obfuscatory
  • obfuscous
  • objectionable
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  • obscene
  • obscurant
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  • obscure
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  • outlawed
  • overcast
  • pale
  • paleness
  • pernicious
  • perplexing
  • perverted
  • pessimistic
  • pestilential
  • philistine
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • plaintive
  • plutonian
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • prudent
  • puzzling
  • questionable
  • quiet
  • raw
  • rayless
  • recondite
  • reprehensible
  • reprobate
  • reserved
  • reticent
  • rotten
  • roundabout
  • rude
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • scowling
  • scrofulous
  • seclusion
  • secrecy
  • secret
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  • semidarkness
  • semiliterate
  • senseless
  • sepulchral
  • shade
  • shaded
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  • shadowlike
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  • shrouded
  • sick
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  • smoggy
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  • solemn
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  • somberness
  • sombre
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
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  • sphinxlike
  • starless
  • stealthy
  • stupid
  • stygian
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surreptitious
  • swart
  • swarthy
  • taciturn
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • thickness
  • threatening
  • tight-lipped
  • tight-mouthed
  • twilight
  • twilit
  • ugly
  • umbra
  • umbrage
  • unanswerable
  • unauthorized
  • unbecoming
  • uncanny
  • uncertain
  • unclean
  • unclear
  • uncommunicative
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undefined
  • undercover
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • undetermined
  • uneducated
  • unenlightened
  • unethical
  • unfathomable
  • ungodly
  • unhappy
  • unhealthy
  • uninstructed
  • unknowable
  • unknowledgeable
  • unlawful
  • unlearned
  • unlettered
  • unlighted
  • unlit
  • unprincipled
  • unpropitious
  • unread
  • unrighteous
  • unsavory
  • unschooled
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unskilled
  • unsophisticated
  • untaught
  • untrained
  • untutored
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • vague
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vulgar
  • weird
  • wicked
  • witching hour
  • witless
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wretched
  • wrong

elliptic

elliptical

faint

  • aside
  • asthenic
  • bated
  • be overcome
  • become unconscious
  • black out
  • blackout
  • bland
  • bleached
  • blear
  • bleary
  • blurred
  • blurry
  • break down
  • breakable
  • breathless
  • broken-down
  • challenged
  • collapse
  • damaged
  • dark
  • daze
  • deadened
  • debilitated
  • decrepit
  • deep
  • delicate
  • dim
  • disabled
  • distant
  • dizziness
  • dizzy
  • down-and-out
  • drained
  • drooping
  • drop
  • drowsiness
  • dull
  • dusky
  • dusty
  • effete
  • enervated
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  • epicene
  • exhausted
  • fade
  • faded
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  • faltering
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  • fatigued
  • feeble
  • flagging
  • flicker
  • flimsy
  • foggy
  • fragile
  • frail
  • fuzzy
  • gauzy
  • gentle
  • gloomy
  • go out like light
  • grayout
  • groggy
  • harmed
  • hazy
  • hieroglyphic
  • hieroglyphical
  • hoarse
  • hurt
  • hushed
  • ill-defined
  • impaired
  • impalpable
  • imperceptible
  • impotent
  • inappreciable
  • inaudible
  • incapacitated
  • incomprehensible
  • indecipherable
  • indefinite
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  • infirm
  • injured
  • insensibility
  • intangible
  • invalid
  • invisible
  • keel over
  • knockout
  • lame
  • languid
  • languish
  • lenient
  • lethargic
  • light
  • lightheaded
  • low
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  • mild
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  • muffled
  • murky
  • murmuring
  • muted
  • muttering
  • mysterious
  • narcosis
  • nebulous
  • obfuscatory
  • obscure
  • opaque
  • out of earshot
  • padded
  • pale
  • paralyzed
  • pass out
  • piano
  • powerless
  • prostrate
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  • puzzling
  • quiet
  • remote
  • resistless
  • rocky
  • sapped
  • shadowy
  • sleep
  • slight
  • smooth
  • soft
  • softened
  • somnolence
  • soothing
  • stifled
  • stupor
  • subdued
  • succumb
  • susceptible
  • swim
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  • tender
  • tenuous
  • thin
  • tired
  • trance
  • unclear
  • undefined
  • undetermined
  • unenthusiastic
  • unresistant
  • unsound
  • unsteady
  • unsubstantial
  • vague
  • vertigo
  • vulnerable
  • wan
  • wasted
  • weak
  • weaken
  • weakened
  • weary
  • whispered
  • wimpish
  • wimpy
  • woozy
  • worn-out
  • yielding

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